Polish Sausage, Potatoes, and Cabbage

This is a hearty meal that will fill everyone up. This is a comfort meal, and a cheap meal, but by no means is this a healthy meal so enjoy it but not all the time!
Frugal Tips for Polish Sausage, Potatoes, and Cabbage
You can’t get much more frugal than this but I do purchase [...]

Asian Beef with Mandarin Oranges

This is a great way to put a new twist on the roast we eat so often. I was pleasantly surprised to not only find this recipe but to also find how much I like it!
Frugal Tips for Asian Beef with Mandarin Oranges
I usually only buy roast if I can purchase it during a buy [...]

Moo Shu Chicken Tostada

This is one of those meals that when I first discovered it I ended up eating it almost every day for a week. I have since backed off and I try to not eat it as often but it is so good!
Frugal Tips for Moo Shu Chicken Tostadas
Turkey works just as well as chicken in [...]

Have a Frugal Romantic Evening at Home

When we first begin dating we usually find that romance is never in short supply. When we first get together we are so happy to be near the other person that just sitting in the same room can be as much fun as an expensive dinner out. As we get older and settle in together [...]

Easy Bolognese Sauce

This is quite a tasty and easy bolognese sauce to make. I made it for several years before I made it for the hubby. To my surprise he actually liked it! I won’t go that long without sharing a recipe again!
Frugal Tips for Easy Bolognese Sauce
Purchase the ingredients on sale when possible. You could [...]

You can’t have everything.

Or most of us can’t, anyway. We live in a world of consumerism and it can be difficult to not look at the world in regards to who has a nicer house, car, or who went on that vacation to Europe. I admit, I’ve been jealous of what others have. I have looked at the homes [...]

How I saved $60 on our electric bill

We have budget billing for our electric bill and it adjusts throughout the year based on how much electricity we are using. It doesn’t normally adjust more than $20 or so and I had never looked at how much our electricity we were using in the winter. When I did look, I realized that one month [...]

Fried Chicken Salad with Tortilla Chips

A salad is a light and easy weeknight meal. Salads are also easy because you can pretty much throw whatever you have around in them.
Frugal Tips for Fried Chicken Salad with Tortilla Chips
 
You can make fried chicken the night before to make this dish easier and quicker the night you make it for dinner. This [...]

Mobile Home Remodeling Ideas for the Master Bath

The bathroom in our mobile home is one of the first places we remodeled, and is actually scheduled to be one of the next rooms we remodel as it isn’t quite there yet. The mobile home remodeling ideas we had for the master bath were grand but we had to quickly scale them back.
Mobile Home [...]

Beef Lo Mein

This is one of the recipes that we just keep playing around with so don’t expect any hard and fast measurements in this recipe, there just aren’t any!
Frugal Tips for Lo Mein
This should be marinated at least overnight, if not for 24 hours, so you can use a somewhat cheaper beef, though I think [...]

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